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Material Procurement
Resource Center Links
Environmental Improvement Categories
Environmental Management Systems
EPA and many non-governmental organizations, trade groups, and companies collect and share information on techniques and tools for improving a facility's material procurement practices. The links provided below highlight sources of information on the following topics:
Disclaimer: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides this information as a free and open service to the public. EPA does not endorse any company or product identified on this or any subsequent pages listed herein, and makes no claims regarding the accuracy, validity, or effectiveness of this or any other product or service represented by these data.
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Postconsumer Recycled Content
U.S. EPA's Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines website provides guidelines for recommended recycled content levels for a diverse array of products, including construction products, landscaping products, non-paper office products, paper and paper products, park and recreation products, transportation products, vehicular products, and miscellaneous products. This site also includes additional resources, such as databases of manufacturers and suppliers of recycled content products.
Hazardous/Toxic Components
The U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program is a federal-wide program that contains comprehensive web-based tools, documents, and information to assist Executive agencies with making environmentally sound purchasing choices. The Database of Environmental Information for Products and Services contains environmental performance information about a variety of materials.
The Environmental Preferable Purchasing General Training Tool is an interactive, multimedia presentation of the concepts behind environmentally preferable purchasing. "Topic 16: Hazard Factors Associated with Materials" lists ways in which materials can be hazardous. The training tool does not contain specific measurement tools, but the case studies present example calculations.
Lists of hazardous chemicals and materials to consider include:
EPA's Toxics Release Inventory Program provides a Current List of TRI Chemicals and guidance documents for chemical specific and industry specific guidelines for measuring toxics.
TRI chemicals identified as carcinogens by OSHA
Annexes A and B of the
Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs) (PDF, 137KB, 34 pp)
contain lists of POPs to be eliminated
and restricted.
EPA's Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemical Program provides lists of chemicals identified as Level 1 PBTs or Level 2 substances by the Binational Toxic Strategy of the U.S. and Canada.
Materials considered hazardous under
Hazardous Materials Regulations (Title 49 CFR
Parts 100-185), are managed by the
Department
of Transportation's Office of Hazardous
Material Study
. For more information search interpretations of hazardous materials, click on Hazmut Interpretations
. A list of hazardous materials can be found in Chapter 1, Subchapter 3, Part 172.101, Hazardous Materials Table
.